In Nassau, which has more than 40 water suppliers, a county ordinance requires odd-even watering, and watering is barred from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pressure problems of a different kind confront suppliers and residents on the Great Neck and Port Washington peninsulas, where excessive pumping from public wells would upset the balance that keeps out saltwater pressing inland from Long Island Sound.
"So today we've kind of been confronted with what to do when it's a hard, solid chunk rather than an easier mix".
Mr McConnell is clever, disciplined, lawyerly, pin-striped; he is the kind of person who, confronted with 50 kinds of coffee in an espresso bar, would probably ask for "regular".
But in this instantaneous, virtualizing age, that kind of testimony confronts a new variety: a testimony of aggregate, average, good-enough truths.
The fantasy of "Kitchen Nightmares" is that losers, when presented with the right kind of motivation — when confronted with greatness — can quickly acquire the ambition that attends it.
Ms. Lin, who weathered storms of criticism in the 1980s as her design for the Vietnam memorial was shaped, said it had been a long time since she had confronted the kind of opposition she is encountering in Newport.
James E. Baker, a retired State Department foreign service officer who, tongue slightly in cheek, described himself as "ancient, over the hill, falling apart," confronted that kind of skittishness when he bought a one-bedroom in a co-op on East Ninth Street.
The assistant was kind, listened patiently when confronted with my phrasing buffoonery.
The president has had this kind of discussion when confronted with the extremism of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, presenting one of the most striking explanations on the issue of race ever by a national leader.
And at the sprawling free breakfast buffet, I confronted four kinds of pickled herring.
